Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-01
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

lufOWu Ii ilOih ouSSy W. VIM 1
pike last Saturday afternoon, but es-
capped without serious injury.
About one-third of the wool crop
of Greene county has been sold at
prices ranging from % to 33 cts.
An insane man, in Jail at
Youngstown, made scaffold of a
mop and two brooms, rope or a
twisted sheet, and hung himself.
Hastings Magill, a merchant of
New Castle, went to Pittsburg some
days ago and has not been heard from
since. The money he had in his
pocket at the time of leaving ESQ far
as known) did not exceed $500. An
effort is being made to discover his
whereabouts. As he left good busi
ness, valuable real estate and stock
of goods the value of which is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000
against all of which the claims do
not exceed $4,000 and family with
whom he has always lived happily,
and as he might have taken many
times the amount of money he did,
none of his friends think he went
away intending to stay.
Samuel l.. Gibson, ESQ, a prom
inent member of the Erie county Bar,
was drowned in Erie Bay last Thurs
day morning. He was out in small
boat, fishing for perch. While at
tempting to anchor his boat the line
became tangled about his wrist, and
as he was standing up, the heavy
stone used for an anchor easily pull
ed him overheard, carrying him to
the bottom in seven-foot water. The
body was recovered two hours after
the accident.
The Washington, Pa, Observer
says: - considerable Washington
county wool changed hands at prices
ranging from % cents to 81 cents
An intelligent gentleman who is well
posted in the wool business of this
county estimates that the number OF
sheep in the county has been reduced
at least 20 per cent within two or
three years. In some neighborhoods
the reduction amounts to so per cent
Many of the farmers have sold their
f1ocks, believing they were unable to
make sheep-raising profitable at the
low price at which wool has ranged
during that period Quite number
of those going out of the sheep busi
ness have gone to dairying."
"A McKeesport woman got d.
vorce from her husband, who was so
Jealous that he examined her shoes
when be came home at night to see
if she had been out during the day.
The license of Julius B Clark,
the Washington liquor seller, expired
last week, when he was compe lied to
close out the business. His license
was not renewed. There is now no
license in Washington county.
The Dubois farm, in Clearfeld
county, is one Of the most extensive
in the State. Here is what Fuller is
doing this season: They are growing
80 acres of potatoes, 61 acres of corn,
$50 acres of wheat, 10 acres of rye
and 800 acres of fine bottom land in
grass which will cut % tons to the
acre. Besides this Mr.. Fuller says
they will put in 40 acres of buck
wheat. Speaking of stock he said
Mr.. Dubois was pasturing los 2-year
olds which would bye and-bye furn.
ish his meat market with choice
roasts, steak, etc. Six hundred trees
of all kinds of choice fruit are just
about arriving at the bearing age,
and an acre Of grapes come under Mr.
Fuller's care
The latest fraud that is being
perpetrated On the farmers of Lancas-
ter county, is the sulky plow racket.
Their mode of doing business was to
drive up to farmer and engage him
to GO along the following week to sell
plows at a stipulated price. In the
meantime the farmer must have a
sample plow to show his ncighbors.
One was unloaded and the farmer
signed what seemed receipt for the
same, but which in reality was a
pomissory note. After the plow was
unloaded the agent never made his
appearance again. Quite a number
were y;ctimized and have quietly
paid the notes thinking a contest to be
useless. The moral is, our farmers
should not sign any papers for
strangers and they should patronize
our home implement works.
Clyde Kerns was standing in the
gutter of a roof which he and some
others were covering with rubber
paint, at Latrobe. when bucket of
the boiling stuff was upset and ran
down to where he was standing in his
stocking feet. He had either to bear
the scalding paint or leap from the
roof, Lifting one Of his feet he stood
on the other and endured the torture.
He was taken home with the flesh |
literally boiled off the right foot and
ankle.
The Union Free Press, of Kit
tanning has been enlarged and other
wise improved. 1t is one of our best
exchanges.
up in GreenvilIe they "open"
barber shops in great style, banquet,
etc., in which the leading citizens
take part, as per a correspondent, as
follows: A sumptuous banquet was
given at the Central barber shop last
night by Mr.. j. P. Arnold. The
richest music was discoursed by the
Independent Band and afterward by
Harris Orchestra. The edibles, ETC.,
were delicious and abundant. The
shaving parlors were beautifully dec
Grated, with rich festoonings and lace
curtains giving the apartments love-
ly appearance.
"A couple of Ohio boys fought a
duel the other day about young
lady. After two rounds, in which
both were wounded, the kids shook
hands and agreed to leave the settle
ment of the dispute to the young lady
herself. Why didn't they place the
last act first, in the first place?
Miss Lovina Smith, q fourteen
year old New Castle girl, walked out
of a second story window, in her sleep
and fell distance of % feet, breaking